ChainCatcher news, HashKey HSK announces that the HashKey Chain mainnet is now live.HashKey Chain is an Ethereum-based Layer-2 blockchain that utilizes OP-Stack technology, aiming to provide faster transaction speeds, low fees, and an optimized developer experience. The platform is dedicated to facilitating the integration of Web2 and Web3, launching innovative applications such as BTCFi, RWA, stablecoins, and PayFi, driving transformation in the financial sector.At the same time, HashKey Chain has launched a $50 million Atlas Grant program for developers, aimed at deeply exploring high-quality projects in the Web3 space and providing comprehensive empowerment to achieve exponential growth for HashKey Chain's application layer and on-chain users.

ChainCatcher news, the decentralized AI data liquidity network Vana announced that its mainnet will go live on December 16th, Monday at 17:00 Beijing time.VANA token trading will open at 18:00 Beijing time.

ChainCatcher news, the membership-based blockchain Geist focused on gaming has launched its mainnet. Geist is powered by Arbitrum Orbit and has gone live on Base, offering sub-second latency and minimal fees, providing a seamless on-chain experience for gamers and developers.

ChainCatcher news, the Ethereum L2 network Mint Blockchain announced on social media that it has launched the Public Mainnet, open to community users.Since the release of the Dev Mainnet on May 15, 2024, the mainnet infrastructure of Mint Blockchain has been fully operational, supported by over 100 ecosystem partners and more than 400,000 active on-chain addresses.According to Mint community news, Mint Blockchain will kick off mainnet activities in July, encouraging Web3 developers and community users to participate in the construction of the Mint Blockchain mainnet.

ChainCatcher message, Taiko released the statistics since the mainnet launch one month ago. As of the publication, Taiko has a total of 24.89 million transactions, approximately 710,000 unique wallets, and an average daily TPS of 19.53.

ChainCatcher news, according to Decrypt, the anticipated airdrop of the modular blockchain network Dymension in the Cosmos ecosystem will take place during the mainnet launch early Tuesday morning, providing 70 million DYM tokens to early users and specific communities, accounting for 7% of the total supply.Dymension refers to this airdrop as the "genesis rolldrop," available for over 1 million unique wallets across various chains and communities, including users on the Solana, Celestia, and Ethereum scaling networks. Certain communities can also participate in the airdrop, including holders of the popular Pudgy Penguins NFT series on Ethereum, as well as holders of the Mad Lads and Tensorians NFT series on Solana. While over 1 million wallets are eligible to claim these 700 million airdrop tokens, the claiming process began in January, and only 528,523 wallets ultimately submitted claims, meaning about half of the eligible users did not claim DYM, and these tokens were eventually redistributed to other users.Based on the total value of the distributed tokens, DYM is currently the second-largest token airdrop of 2024. At the current price of $5.199 per DYM, the total value of the airdropped tokens is approximately $364 million.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, the Immutable zkEVM mainnet launched in collaboration with Polygon by the Web3 game developer platform Immutable is now available for selected game studios and ecosystem partners, and will be open to the public in the coming weeks.According to the statement, Immutable's current products will also be compatible with Immutable zkEVM, and the chain will provide gasless functionality for gamers using its Immutable Passport non-custodial wallet.

ChainCatcher message, exploring.eth stated on social media that the modular blockchain network Celestia has updated the pre-genesis file (pre-genesis.json), with the genesis time (mainnet launch time) set for October 31 at 22:00 Beijing time. The addresses eligible for airdrops are included in this file, and tokens will be directly distributed to wallets after the mainnet launch, with no need for users to claim them.

ChainCatcher message, according to the official announcement from BNB Chain, opBNB will launch in mid-August 2023 and will first be open to infrastructure providers. The Mainnet will be fully open by the end of August or early September based on the founding standards listed below.According to the announcement, opBNB will focus on data availability, performance, stress testing, gas fees, infrastructure security, and developer experience. It will collaborate with infrastructure providers to integrate data analysis tools, Oracles, and more.

ChainCatcher news, the Ethereum mainnet has officially been online for 8 years. Since July 30, 2015, the Ethereum mainnet has officially launched and produced the genesis block, and now the Ethereum mainnet has been running for exactly 8 years, with the block reward for the genesis block being 5 ETH.According to OKLink data, the current total market capitalization of Ethereum is 225.4 billion USD, with a total of 296 million mainnet addresses, approximately 2.05 billion total transactions, and a total transaction volume reaching 9.93 billion ETH.

ChainCatcher news, Ethereum developers held the first All Core Developers (ACD) meeting of 2023 this week. The current goal for Ethereum developers is to launch the public testnet for the Shanghai upgrade in early February, with the mainnet launch tentatively scheduled for sometime in March 2023.Additionally, the developers agreed to remove code changes related to the implementation of EOF from the Shanghai upgrade, and also agreed to reject any other Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs) from the Shanghai upgrade in place of the EOF EIP, primarily to ensure that the timeline for staking ETH withdrawals will not be delayed. As the only major code change for the Shanghai upgrade, staking ETH withdrawals are being tested on a developer-focused testnet. Furthermore, the developers agreed to focus the Cancun upgrade, following the Shanghai upgrade, on EIP-4844. (source link)